Invited to Europe 1 on Monday, Natasha St-Pier, whose new album "Croire" will be released on August 14, returned to a defining moment in her career. Without the help and support of artist Pascal Obispo, the singer would have abandoned music and returned to Canada to become a nurse.

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Natasha St-Pier, the Canadian singer with three million albums sold and a double platinum disc, will release her new album Croire on August 14. Guest of It feels good Monday, she confided in an episode in her life, without which she would have ended her career as a singer. Without the intervention of Pascal Obispo, Natasha St-Pier would not be doing the same job today. "It changed my life," she said on Europe 1. 

"I wanted to stop the music"

The singer met Pascal Obispo, who "set foot in the stirrup of French music", on a television program set. At that time, Natasha St-Pier was in her twenties. "I wanted to stop the music because for me, singer was not a job but a hobby," she explains. "I told myself that I had to find a real job. I wanted to return to Canada, become a nurse, and move on to something else. An adult life in fact," she says.

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But at the end of the program, Pascal Obispo invited him to "have a coffee at his place the same evening to [make him listen to songs". "I thank him. He changed my life," she recalls. Thanks to him, she released her first hits, You'll find and Die tomorrow. "I have the impression that we always put people in my way in somewhat strange situations," she observes. "Whenever someone comes into my life, it is never in an ordinary way but I am happy to live these human experiences."

"It was Pascal Obispo the first who taught me to say no to producers"

Her twenty-year career, Natasha St-Pier therefore feels that she owes them in part to Pascal Obsipo. "Pascal has been very important in my life," she says. "He made songs that propelled me to the front of the stage," says the singer.

The singer of Plus que tout au monde also helped her to establish herself in the music world. "He was the first one who taught me to say no to producers," she explains. "At the time I had a producer who was a bit abusive and who kept my money. And it was Pascal who defended me, and who helped me get out of this situation," she reveals. . It was also Pascal Obispo who "taught me that, even if I was young in the profession, even if I was dealing with people who had more experience than me, I was entitled to have an opinion, "says the 39-year-old singer, grateful.